Following a rigorous assessment period, EXO water quality monitoring sondes from Xylem Analytics are being deployed in what is arguably one of the most hostile environments imaginable – nuclear waste legacy storage ponds at the Sellafield nuclear...
Designing information systems for local needs. By Ulrike Rivett, Michael Champanis and Toni Wilson-Jones Between 1994 and 2012 over 21 million people in South Africa were given access to an improved water source and in 2008 the initiative of Blue...
A new R45 million UD Truck dealership has opened in KwaZulu-Natal. The new Combined Motor Holdings (CMH) facility in Pinetown offers UD Trucks customers in the region a proverbial one-stop-shop with complete sales, service, parts and finance...
Stakeholders in the chemical sector have a duty to integrate the principles of green chemistry and green engineering into their manufacturing processes, says Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor. Pandor was speaking at the 5th...
The trade relationship between the United States and Africa, as well as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – which provides exporters duty-free access to the lucrative US market, was recently put under the microscope at the 2014 US...
A newly launched Design Park is ready to shape the ideas of the Western Cape’s budding inventors, with a R6.5 million fund to finance the best products. MEC of Economic Opportunities Alan Winde yesterday (14 August) launched the Design Park, based...
Most people associate roads and road building with asphalt. However, those involved with road design know that precast concrete also plays an indispensable role in road construction. Can you elaborate? JC Any road, be it a suburban byway or a...
SprayPave is one of Southern Africa’s leading manufacturers, suppliers and applicators of bituminous road binders, emulsions, primes, pre-coats and modified binders, serving the road construction, maintenance and waterproofing industries. USING...
The launch of MTN’s Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant has highlighted the benefits of Fresnel technology. This uses the sun to reflect heat from 242 mirror panels to ultimately create air conditioning for MTN’s data centre, converting heat into...
